To Asa Gray 5 February [1871]
Summary
Sends questions on expressions of Laura Bridgman.
Has finished Descent. Believes that parts, like that on moral sense, will aggravate AG.
Working on an essay on expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 5 Feb [1871] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7476 |
To John Scott 1 November 1871
Summary
JS should not consider repaying CD; the money was a gift, not a loan.
JS’s information on expression is the best he has received.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8045 |
From J. V. Carus 28 May 1871
Summary
Sends corrections for Descent.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 106–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7774 |
From A. C. Ramsay 20 October 1871
Summary
Glad CD agrees with his views as much as he does. Not surprised that his red rocks [Red Sandstones] ideas are disputed. The red marls of Auvergne support his inland water theory.
| Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8026 |
From Hugh Browne 17 April [1871]
Summary
Raises two points on CD’s view, in Descent [2: 229], on how aquatic birds acquire white plumage.
Also remarks on effect of will in certain human modifications,
on colour-blindness in his children,
and on ability to move his ears.
| Author: | Hugh Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7690 |
From John Murray 26 May [1871]
Summary
Sends two bills [JM’s notes for payments due to CD] for £420 each for 3d issue of Descent.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 399 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7769 |
From J. V. Carus 15 March 1871
Summary
Sends CD a list of misprints in vol. 1 of Descent.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7586 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 October 1871
Summary
Details of the JDH–Ayrton–Gladstone imbroglio.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 93–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’Correspondence vol. 156, Indian Letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1905, ff. 1066–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8036 |
To John Murray 12 May [1871]
Summary
Will require at least six weeks’ notice before a new edition of Descent has to go to press because of considerable corrections needed.
Thinks cheap edition of Origin is needed, since he could answer objections in it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 12 May [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 244–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7755 |
To Asa Gray 16 July [1871]
Summary
CD’s sons, George and Francis, are to visit the U. S. Can AG supply any letters of introduction?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 16 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7867 |
To John Morley 14 April [1871]
Summary
Comments on JM’s review of Descent, vol. 2 [Pall Mall Gaz. 13 (1871): 1358–9].
Mistake CD made "in speaking of greatest happiness as the foundation of morals" is unintelligible to CD. Discusses J. S. Mill’s view of moral feelings as natural. Discusses basis of conscience.
Glad to read remarks on hive-bees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 410 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7685 |
From Williams & Norgate 28 April 1871
Summary
Information on the publishing history of a book [J. C. Lavater, Physiognomische Fragmente, 4 vols. (1775–8)].
| Author: | Williams & Norgate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7725 |
To J. V. Carus 25 April [1871]
Summary
Corrections for Descent. Has sold 6500 copies in England.
Has finished rough draft of Expression, but will put it aside for the summer.
Will refresh himself with some curious observations on the response of plants to certain stimuli.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 62–63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7715 |
To R. F. Cooke 12 January [1871]
Summary
Has no idea about length of index [for Descent]. W. S. Dallas wrote it would take ten days more. Asks how many presentation copies he may have. Lists journals to receive review copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Date: | 12 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 274 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7438 |
Matches: 1 hit
From T. H. Huxley and H. A. Huxley 20 September 1871
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 39–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7953 |
From Henry Reeks 25 May 1871
Summary
Comments on and corrections for chapter 13, "Mammals", of Descent.
| Author: | Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 100–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7767 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 August 1871
Summary
Lengthy discussion of William Thomson’s address [BAAS, Edinburgh 1871].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 73–77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7896 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 n. ). Laputa is a fictional country in Gulliver’s travels ( [Swift] 1726 ), whose inhabitants invent absurd contraptions, including a machine that writes books by randomly rearranging words. For CD’s concerns about Herschel’s initial reaction to Origin , see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Charles Lyell, [10 …
From Michele Lessona 5 August 1871
Summary
On the malar bone [see Descent 1: 124].
Has verified hermaphroditism of Serranus and other fishes as normal [see Descent 1: 208].
| Author: | Michele Lessona |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7901 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10: [n.p. ] Lorenzi, Giovanni de. 1872. Tre nuovi casi d’anomalia dell’osso malare. Giornale della Regia Accademia di Medicina di Torino . Turin: Tipografia V. Vercellino. OED : The Oxford English dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 …
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| Browne, Hugh | (1) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Carus, J. V. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
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